Nureddin al-Atassi

Nureddin al-Atassi (1929-3 December 1992) was the President of Syria from 1966 to 1970, succeeding Munif al-Razzaz and preceding Hafez al-Assad.

Biography
Nureddin al-Atassi was born in 1929 in Homs, Syria, to a Sunni Muslim family. He was a medical doctor by training, and he aided Algerian forces in their war of independence from France in the 1950s and early 1960s as a medic for the FLN armies. In 1966 he became General-Secretary of the Ba'ath Party and the President of the Republic of Syria, taking office in a decade of fierce clashes with the neighboring Israel nation. During his reign, Syria fought them in the War over Water and Six-Day War, both disasters. In 1970, Hafez al-Assad overthrew him in a coup.